Has the Sun started to expand into a red giant, its outer layers reaching out to engulf the inner planets, blowing away our atmosphere and leaving the Earth a scorched cinder?
Probably not, by which I mean, “No!” Probably a couple of billion years early for that, although if you stick around…
This is just the combination of the setting Sun, some leftover smoke, and a marine layer of fog and clouds starting to move in off the Pacific.
It just happened to come on a day when the apocalypse might have been met with a comment of, “Eh? Cool! About time!” instead of all of that screaming and terror one usually imagines.
And then tomorrow’s Monday. So, screaming, terror…
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 